Marguerite-Soulange BLANCHET

(b. 30 April 1798 , Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Lower Canada d. 28 July 1868 , La Malbaie, Québec, Canada )

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Marguerite-Soulange BLANCHET was born 30 April 1798 in Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Lower Canada

Marguerite-Soulange BLANCHET was the child of Antoine-Pascal BLANCHET and Madeleine PICARD dite DESTROISMAISONS and the grandchild of: (paternal) Louis BLANCHET and Marguerite GERBERT dite JALBERT (maternal) Philippe DESTROISMAISONS dit PICARD and Marguerite HURET dite ROCHEFORT

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Marguerite-Soulange married Ambroise TRUDEL 20 November 1821 in Québec, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Ambroise TRUDEL was born 2 September 1796 in Saint-Ambroise-de-la-Jeune-Lorette, Québec, Canada (Loretteville). Ambroise was the child of Ambroise TRUDEL and Louise FALARDEAU.

Marguerite-Soulange BLANCHET died 28 July 1868 in La Malbaie, Québec, Canada .
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Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changes
From its inception in the early 1600s until 1760, it was called Canada, New France.
1760 to 1763, it was simply Canada
1763 to 1791 - Province of Québec
1791 to 1867 - Lower Canada
1867 to present - Québec, Canada.

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Family and Children of Marguerite-Soulange BLANCHET

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Marguerite-Soulange BLANCHET married

Ambroise TRUDEL-- Date: 20 November 1821 Place: Québec, Lower Canada
Ambroise TRUDEL was the child of Ambroise TRUDEL and Louise FALARDEAU

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Children of Ambroise TRUDEL and Marguerite-Soulange BLANCHET:

Marie-Zoe TRUDEL (b.abt. 1835, , Québec Province, Canada d. 19 January 1911, Notre-Dame de la Jacques Cartier, Quebec, Canada)
m. Flavien FORGUES 7 February 1853 in La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic)

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1798 Birth
30 April 1798
Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Lower Canada

1800 - Electric storage battery is invented (Alessandro Volta, Italy)

1817 - The bicycle is invented (Baron Karl de Drais de Sauerbrun, Germany)

1818 - Canada's border is defined as the 49th Parallel from Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains.

1820 - January 29 - George IV becomes King of England

1821 Marriage / Partner
Marguerite-Soulange BLANCHET and Ambroise TRUDEL 20 November 1821, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

She was 23 years old.

1824 - Portland cement is invented (Joseph Aspdin, England)

1825 - The locomotive is invented (George Stephenson, England)

1826 - The gas stove is invented (James Sharp, England)

1827 - Matches are invented (John Walker, England)

1829 - The sewing machine is invented (Barthélemy Thimonnier, France)

1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1836 - July 21 - Opening of the first railway in Canada from La Prairie to St. Jean, Quebec

1837 - June 20 - Victoria becomes Queen of England

1839 - February 24 - Steam shovel patented by William Smith Otis (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

1840 to 1860s - French-Canadian emigration to the United States

1841 - February 11 – Act of Union - The two colonies of The Canadas are merged into the United Province of Canada

1843 - The Christmas card is invented (Sir Henry Cole and John Callcott Horsley, England)

Artificial Freezer Patented (Nancy M. Johnson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

1845 - The rubber band is invented (Stephen Perry, England)

The refrigerator is invented (John Gorrie, United States)

1849 - The safety pin is invented (Walter Hunt, United States)

1852-53 - The Grand Trunk Railway receives its charter.

1853 Marriage of Child
Marie-Zoe TRUDEL married 7 February 1853, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada (Murray Bay) (Saint-Etienne-de-la-Malbaie) (Saint-Fidèle) (Pointe-au-Pic) to Flavien FORGUES

1854 - The French seigneurial system of land tenancy is finally abolished in Canada East.

1857 - Toilet paper is invented (Joseph Gayetty, United States)

1857 - Ottawa chosen by Queen Victoria as the capital of the united colony of Canada.

1858 - March 30 - H. L. Lipman, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, patented the first pencil with eraser

1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

1867 - Canada becomes a sovereign nation by an act of the British Parliament (the British North America Act). Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick are united as the Dominion of Canada.